Northern Territory independent Jeff Collins chairs the committee for Harm Reduction Strategy for Addictive Behaviours and says the CLP Opposition, in collusion with the Labor Government, moved to have it shut down in order to punish him for allegedly leaking politically damaging emails.

Precious items are being packed into utes in the Gulf of Carpentaria town of Borroloola as residents flee Cyclone Trevor. If the cyclone tracks on the path that is predicted, it could slam into the town at full force as a category four storm system on Saturday.

Two Northern Territory Labor backbenchers ridicule their own Government's economic management and criticise the spin used to sell the Gunner Government's fiscal strategies in a series of damaging private messages leaked to the ABC.

Changes to youth justice laws being pushed through NT Parliament this week are labelled a blatant "arse-covering" attempt by advocates who say it will allow procedures akin to torture to be used against detainees.

A "very confident young chap" catches the school bus almost 50 kilometres to visit family without notifying his mother, sparking a police search that ended in the early hours of this morning when he was located with relatives.

As SA announces $85m in federal money has been secured for its National Gallery for Aboriginal Art and Cultures in Adelaide, the NT is concerned it has been "gazumped" and that its stalled National Indigenous Art Gallery project will lose out on federal funding.

The former NT education minister, attorney-general, and deputy chief minister, Ms Scrymgour was the first ever Indigenous woman elected to the Northern Territory Parliament. Now, in another first, she will lead an NT land council.

In what they believe is an Australian first, researchers have used a unique strain of hepatitis B virus affecting Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory to deduce ancient human population movements into Australia.

Just over three years into a 99-year lease of Darwin Port, the $506 million paid to the NT Government has been spent. Many of you asked whether the decision could be reversed and what role — if any — was played by former federal trade minister Andrew Robb.

A year after Cyclone Marcus, which left almost 30,000 residents without power, the NT Government has finally taken a decades-old program off ice — announcing it would move the power supply of nine Darwin schools underground.